Ocular Surface and Cornea

This specialty is established to provide care for dry eye disease, glaucoma, ocular surface and corneal diseases, corneal transplantation, pterygium, eyelid and orbital diseases, lacrimal tract diseases, thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO), ocular trauma, oculoplastic conditions, and other conditions. The specialty is headed by Lin Miaoli, Doctor of Ophthalmology and Associate Chief Physician. Team members include Zhao Jianhao, Chief Physician of Traditional Chinese Ophthalmology; Tan Rongqiang, Chief Physician; Tang Hongxia, Associate Chief Physician; Zhang Haitao, Associate Chief Physician; and others. Professor Huang Danping of the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, has also been specially invited to provide outpatient consultations. The specialty provides comprehensive examinations for patients with various eye diseases and has established a dedicated dry-eye treatment system, including dry-eye SPA, OPT, and other treatments. It has introduced perfluorohexyloctane eye drops, a medication for dry eye associated with meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), and, under the “Hong Kong and Macao Drug and Medical Device Connect” policy, has introduced the innovative drug varenicline tartrate nasal spray, an approved nasal spray for treating the symptoms and signs of dry eye disease. For thyroid eye disease, it has introduced the innovative drug teprotumumab N01 injection. At the same time, the specialty is equipped with various glaucoma medications and provides laser and surgical treatment for glaucoma, including YAG laser peripheral iridotomy or surgical iridectomy, glaucoma trabeculectomy, combined glaucoma and cataract surgery, ultrasonic cycloplasty, and other procedures. In particular, it uses the laser iris-margin plasty surgery advocated by Professor Lin Shun-Chao or anterior chamber paracentesis as the treatment approach for acute glaucoma. In addition, the specialty has a Traditional Chinese Medicine consultation service, providing integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment for dry eye, amblyopia, acute conjunctivitis (pink eye), blepharitis, keratitis, hordeolum, and other conditions.